Thursday, November 5, 2015
Queen Elizabeth II must end her longest-running reign sometime. What happens next in the United Kingdom? Broadway plays explore the issue.The queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:31PMOn Nov. 16 at the Gershwin Theatre in New York, Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls will be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
Falls' fellow 2015 honorees are auspicious: th…
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A patriot and a populist, Irving Berlin liked to say he wrote for the people. And did he ever write. Over some 60 years, Berlin wrote a whopping 1,500 musical numbers. These songs were penne…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PMOn Nov. 16 at the Gershwin Theatre in New York, Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls will be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Falls' fellow 2015 honorees are auspicious: the…
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The Windy City Playhouse has been waiting for a date with Neil Simon. Since its founding a year or so ago, this theater in Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood has wanted to offer a differen…
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Christmas 2015 arrived for me with a jolt, one day after Halloween, in the shape of Roger Mueller. As the actor and patriarch of a stable of musical theater stars barreled into the Marriott …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:42PMSunday, November 1, 2015
In 2010, BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and burned off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 workers and causing the biggest offshore oil spill in history. For 87 days, until t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:42PMIn 2010, BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and burned off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 workers and causing the biggest offshore oil spillage in history. For 87 days, unti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMFriday, October 30, 2015
"Love Love Loved @HamiltonMusical" tweeted the punctuation-free @AmySchumer very early Thursday morning, attaching a photo of herself in a very nice orchestra seat at the Richard Rodgers Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:43AM"Love Love Loved @HamiltonMusical" tweeted the punctuation-free @AmySchumer very early Thursday morning, attaching a photo of herself in a very nice orchestra seat at the Richard Rodgers Th…
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NEW YORK — So why have an affair? How about if you're Keira Knightley? The very capable British screen actress — as at home in "Pride and Prejudice" as in "Pirates of the Caribbean" — …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:42PMImagine: An elderly widow, suffering the onset of dementia, has access to a digital, three-dimensional version of her late husband, available at any age of his life. How about when he was 30…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:20PMImagine: An elderly widow, suffering the onset of dementia, has access to a digital, three-dimensional version of her late husband, available at any age of his life. How about when he was 30…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:29PMThis weekend in New York, producer Scott Rudin told me he watched the Roundabout Theater Company's production of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," a play he first had read after its premiere at …
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Lots of playwrights write about their dads. Most of them just don't have the guts to stick it right there in the title.
But Boo Killebrew, a scribe with the kind of name you won't find easi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:43PMLots of playwrights write about their dads. Most of them just don't have the guts to stick it right there in the title. But Boo Killebrew, a scribe with the kind of name you won't find easil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:20PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
NEW YORK — At one point in "Sylvia," the A.R. Gurney off-Broadway comedy from 1995 now sitting down on Broadway, the titular pooch walks out on the stage, having just being spayed.
I say …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:39PM"The Humans," the Stephen Karam play that premiered at American Theater Company in Chicago, is headed to Broadway, the producer Scott Rudin told the Tribune this weekend.
The intimate show …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:28PMNEW YORK — At one point in "Sylvia," the A.R. Gurney off-Broadway comedy from 1995 now sitting down on Broadway, the titular pooch walks out on the stage, having just being spayed. I say "…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:25PM"The Humans," the Stephen Karam play that premiered at American Theater Company in Chicago, is headed to Broadway, the producer Scott Rudin told the Tribune this weekend. The intimate show w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PMMonday, October 26, 2015
The Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has scheduled another new musical with Broadway ambitions — "Hazel," a show based on the character from the Saturday Evening Post comic strip and…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:50PM"Toruk — The First Flight," a major "Avatar"-themed new Cirque du Soleil attraction created in tandem with movie creator James Cameron and 20th Century Fox, is coing to Chicago, the Canadi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AM"Toruk — The First Flight," a major "Avatar"-themed new Cirque du Soleil attraction created in tandem with movie creator James Cameron and 20th Century Fox, is coming to Chicago, the Canad…
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The hero of "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" is a rabbit made out of china. Merely moments into the Chicago Children's Theatre's fall production, directed by Stuart Carden, my unpro…
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The Broadway star and recent Tony Awards co-host Kristin Chenoweth brings her concert show to the Chicago Theatre on Saturday night. "I do a lot of different material now," she said in…
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Chicago's official Christmas tree will move from Daley Plaza in the Loop, its familiar home for close to 50 years, to a new spot in Millennium Park, the Tribune reported Wednesday. The city …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:53PMAfter nearly eight years, the Jerry Lee Lewis jukebox musical 'Million Dollar Quartet' is closing at the Apollo Theater. So what's next?
After nearly eight years, one of the great recent su…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:08AMAfter nearly eight years, the Jerry Lee Lewis jukebox musical 'Million Dollar Quartet' is closing at the Apollo Theater. So what's next? After nearly eight years, one of the great recent suc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:04AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Alas, "The Terrible" is pretty terrible.
Morgan McNaught's new play, which premiered Monday night at The Den Theatre as a New Colony production under the shrill direction of Jesse Roth, is …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:54PMAlas, "The Terrible" is pretty terrible. Morgan McNaught's new play, which premiered Monday night at The Den Theatre as a New Colony production under the shrill direction of Jesse Roth, is b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PMMonday, October 19, 2015
In 2012, Tribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice introduced Chicago to Gloria Allen, a 66-year-old transgender Chicagoan, who regularly ate lunch at the Center on Halsted with other senior membe…
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